In the 1930s. Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, New Mexico, and Colorado were hit by big storms that destroyed almost everything. The dust storms ruined the land and the lives of the people that lived there. The people eventually had to move west.
The Plains area was mostly dry grasslands and if the farmers worked hard they were able to grow wheat and corn and also raise cattle. Also, the drought could practically take the farmer’s farms and the Mortgage companies would take the farms and send tractors to knock down their houses so the farmers would leave. In 1931 a terrible drought fell across in the middle of the nation and that America was already failing from the stock market crash in 1929, so from 1931 to 1935 almost all of the farmers got no rain at all. Also, the farmers were having a hard time and for five years their wheat and corn crops failed which the farmers had no income and couldn’t pay their mortgages. There were times with no rainfall and wild grass. When there was no rainfall the area would become dry and dusty. …show more content…
The families couldn’t find enough jobs in the West, and most of them couldn’t afford housing so they would have to camp out where they could. Some of the natives would call them “Okies” and spread rumors that they were mentally retarded.
Then, the Great Depression came out and things improved for the migrants. At least more than 1 million people moved west away from the Plains in search for work picking crops and digging roads so their families wouldn’t
The Plains area was mostly dry grasslands and if the farmers worked hard they were able to grow wheat and corn and also raise cattle. Also, the drought could practically take the farmer’s farms and the Mortgage companies would take the farms and send tractors to knock down their houses so the farmers would leave. In 1931 a terrible drought fell across in the middle of the nation and that America was already failing from the stock market crash in 1929, so from 1931 to 1935 almost all of the farmers got no rain at all. Also, the farmers were having a hard time and for five years their wheat and corn crops failed which the farmers had no income and couldn’t pay their mortgages. There were times with no rainfall and wild grass. When there was no rainfall the area would become dry and dusty. …show more content…
The families couldn’t find enough jobs in the West, and most of them couldn’t afford housing so they would have to camp out where they could. Some of the natives would call them “Okies” and spread rumors that they were mentally retarded.
Then, the Great Depression came out and things improved for the migrants. At least more than 1 million people moved west away from the Plains in search for work picking crops and digging roads so their families wouldn’t